19 August 2013 (03:00 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Shawwal 1434/28 Mordad 1391/13 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“There is no longer good reason to keep secrets about such a critical episode in our recent past. The basic facts are widely known to every school child in Iran. Suppressing the details only distorts the history, and feeds into myth making on all sides.”-Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archives

The National Security Archives has published quietly released U.S. government documents proving the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was ordered to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953, all to help out an oil company that is now known as BP (British Petroleum)!

The documents come from the CIA’s own internal history archives.  The overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddeq was known as Operation TPAJAX.  Other documents are from the United Kingdom.

The National Security Archives says there are more documents, about one cubit foot worth, based on references made in other CIA in house historical reports.